KDE 3.0 was finally released. The official announcement will come soon, but for now, you can download KDE 3.0 for Conectiva, FreeBSD, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, Tru64, YellowDog or the source code. Debian, IRIX, AIX or Solaris packages not available yet.
KDE 3.0 Released
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Here it is:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.0.html
Now I just have to wait for the FreeBSD ports maintainers to add it to the ports collection. Hopefully it won’t be like the wait for XFree86 4.2.0 after it was backed out. Off to freshports.org to check…
> Now I just have to wait for the FreeBSD ports maintainers
> to add it to the ports collection.
You can already download the precompiled packages for
FreeBSD from http://freebsd.kde.org/packages/3.0/All/
The leap between KDE 1 and 2 seemed to be pretty substantial, at least with the introduction of Qt 2. What are the major differences between KDE 2 and 3? A port to Qt 3? What else?
Yes good question. Release numbers ,that is what adds up in the M$-IT world.I hope this will not happen in LINUX.
KDE3 is cool.It getting better every time.(Try slick icons)
uh, you did read the 500 page release announcement right? if after that you don’t have a clear idea of the differences, there’s only one alternative left…
I’ve been running kde3 since beta2, and I have to say it doens’t really *do* anything new — it’s just more polished, more professional, and a hell of a lot faster.
Before you yell “It should be called KDE 2.3, not KDE 3” consider that they had to break binary compatibility. Not just to port to QT3 but also to make some small but needed architectural changes under the hood. The kind of stuff you won’t see directly, but you’ll notice nonetheless.
For example, I write lots of heavily multithreaded code under kde. I’m working on a program right now which (for good reason) spawns as many as 70 or 80 threads. When this program would crash, under kde2, Dr Konqui wouldn’t even know what to do with it — but now that I’m running kde3 and did the (trivial) porting of my codebase to qt3/kde3 Dr Konqui will give me a full stack trace for the offending thread when my program goes belly up.
KDE3 is a hell of a lot more polished and a hell of a lot tighter than KDE2.x was, not that KDE2.x was bad.
Once the servers cool down I’ll be downloading and compiling kde3 myself. But I’m in no rush — it takes about 8 to 10 hours to fully build kde on my laptop — and anyway kde3 rc3 is fantastic
It is essentially a port of KDE 2.2.2 to QT3, with some minor changes. From my experiences, it is much faster but not very stable and a little rough around the edges. Some minor (but nonetheless very annoying) bugs which have persisted throughout the 2.x series have yet to be corrected.
they said something about fixing clipart in 3.0
I’m waiting for the SVG icons in KDE 3.1…
I have a fresh installation of Mandrake 8.2 which I installed just to play with 8.2 and KDE 3, nut KDE 3 just doesn’t like it. I’ve read that many other people are having a difficult time upgrading.
This lack of a decent, all-purpose install proceedure is a serious detriment to Linux in a world when people expect Windows-like install routines.